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Stroke Rehabilitation - Medications for Stroke Prevention
After a stroke and during rehabilitation, you need medicines to help prevent another stroke. You may need medicines to thin your blood and prevent clots from forming and medicines to lower blood pressure and cholesterol.
Antiplatelets to prevent clots
Anticoagulants to keep clots from growing and to prevent new clots
Cholesterol-lowering medicines
- Statins to lower cholesterol
- Zetia, a new cholesterol-lowering medicine
- Niacin
Blood pressure-lowering medicines
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July 06, 2007
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